Category: Blog

• Babywearing in Hogarth’s London

  

  Let’s talk about the baby carriers in William Hogarth’s painting, “March of the Guards to Finchley” on display at the Foundling Museum in London.

  Aradia Wyndham

  November 12, 2017

  Babies, Blog

  18th century, art history, babywearing, featured, foster care, foster children, Foundling Museum, foundlings, illegitimate children, infant carriers, London, March of the Guards to Finchley, William Hogarth

• From Baby Toting to Babywearing

  

  Dr. Sears claims credit for coining the phrase ‘Babywearing’ in the 1980’s but did you know interest in infant carrier cultures had been growing in popularity since the 1950’s?

  Aradia Wyndham

  October 27, 2016

  Babies, Blog

  20th century, A Raisin in the Sun, adaptations, Ann Moore, baby boom, baby seat, babywearing, CBC, Dr. William Sears, Elizabeth Taylor, film, Gerry Baby, graco, harness carrier, history, innovations, Ivory Snow, Lorraine Hansberry, North America, P&G, plastic carriers, popular culture, Rayner Garner, reclining baby seats, retro tv, ring sling, snugli, Spencer Tracy, stigma, The Baby Sling, UC Magazine, vintage commercials

• Birth and Carriers in Indonesia

  

  Learn how the peoples of Indonesia incorporate their infant carriers into their postpartum traditions.

  Aradia Wyndham

  March 3, 2015

  Babies, Birth, Blog

  ancestors, Aspects of Baby Wrappings, Beloved Burden, Birth, color, dukun bayi, East Nussa, folding, gendhongan, generational, I.C. Van Hout, indigo, Indonesia, Java, kain panjang, lotus birth, Luwu, matrilineal, midwife, N.U. Russell, newborn, pattern, pipitan, placenta, public hair, putihan, R. Heringa, rituals, sarrong, sayut, selendang, South Sulawesi, status, tapih ciyut, tapih wijar, wengko mole

• The Beng Babies of the Côte d’Ivoire

  

  Learn more about Alma Gottlieb’s book “The Afterlife is Where We Come From” on the culture of infancy involving reincarnation and carrying among the Beng.

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 19, 2015

  Babies, Blog

  Africa, allomother, alloparenting, alma gottlieb, anthropology, attachment, baby carrier, babysitter, babywearing, back carry, bath time, Beng, child care, children, culture, dorsal carry, EC, emotional health, ethnography, Gottlieb, infant carriers, infant potty training, Ivory Coast, khanga, mothers, napping, parenting, poop, proximal care, reincarnation, torso carry, west africa, working mom

• Infant Care in Taira, Okinawa | 1950-60’s

  

  A lot has been said about Okinawan culture in the Attachment Parenting community, let’s set the record straight: from the moms who return to work after a few months maternity leave, to the siblings and grandmothers who strap the baby to their backs as they go about their days, and the hard-knocks school of weaning.

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 1, 2015

  Blog, Uncategorized

  abortion, advice, agriculture, ancestor worship, annullment, baby led weaning, baby proofing, babysitters, behavior in labor, birth control, blank slate, breastfeeding, breastfeeding position, celebrations, climate change, cloth diapers, confinement, contraceptives, cosleeping, cowlicks, crawling, crying, diaper rash, digestion, discipline, disposable diapers, elders, elimination communication, family meals, featured, food cravings, generational, gift from the gods, grandmothers, Hatsumi Maretzki, head support, high priestess, imprinting on a fetus, Japan, Japanese, labor position, mansang, maternity leave, morning sickness, moxa-cauterized, neglect, nobility, offerings, Okinawa, Okinawan, pacific, patriarchy, placenta, postpartum help, Pregnancy, rice oracles, rituals, sexism, Shuri, siblings, Six Cultures, socioeconomics, stilted house, strap carry, superstitions, swaddling, Taira, temperment, temporary name, thatch, Thomas Maretzki, typhoons, U.S. Military, urine burns, using the breast for comfort, weaning, westernization, wet nursing, working mom, WWII, yukajiru